Systeme.io alternatives: Kajabi, Podia, LearnyBox compared

Why look for a Systeme.io alternative?

Systeme.io bundles sales funnels, email marketing, courses, a website, a blog, automations and an affiliate program. According to its site, every feature is available on every plan, including the free one, and paid plans mostly raise the limits (features). The free plan never expires, needs no credit card and includes 2,000 contacts, 3 funnels, 1 course, 1 custom domain and unlimited emails. Systeme.io takes no commission on sales on any plan: you only pay Stripe or PayPal fees.

Three things can push you to look elsewhere:

• The free plan is tight on marketing: 1 email campaign, 1 automation rule, 1 one-click upsell and 1 order bump (pricing).
• The built-in AI is reserved for the most expensive plan. Its AI Chat creates funnels, newsletters, products and courses and generates the content of funnel pages, but for now it is only available on the Unlimited plan, at €97/month; Systeme.io plans to open it to all users in a future update, with no date given (help). On every plan, its MCP server lets ChatGPT or Claude create a funnel, a newsletter draft or a product in your account (source). Its prompt generator writes instructions that get an outside AI tool to produce a page’s HTML; a built-in AI page builder is announced, also with no date given (source).
• Finally, the free plan caps lifetime sales revenue at $10,000, affiliate commissions excluded. The cap is written into the terms of service (Article 5a). Once you reach it, you have 3 days to move to a paid plan; after that, your checkout pages stop accepting new sales.

Systeme.io vs LearnyBox, Podia and Kajabi: the comparison

Like Systeme.io, Kajabi, Podia and LearnyBox combine a sales page, checkout, video courses and email. They differ mainly on AI and one-click upsells.

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Platform commission, excluding payment processing fees. Prices checked on October 20, 2026 on the official websites. Sources: Systeme.io (1, 2, 3), LearnyBox (1, 2, 3, 4), Podia (1, 2), Kajabi (1, 2, 3, 4)

The prices don’t compare one to one: LearnyBox lists euro prices excluding VAT, Systeme.io shows the same amounts in US dollars on its English pricing page, and Podia and Kajabi bill in dollars.

Fees don’t either. Kajabi takes no revenue share, but it adds its own per-transaction fee, from 2% to 0.5% depending on the plan, when you take card payments through a processor other than Kajabi Payments (PayPal excepted) in a country where that service exists, such as the US, the UK or Canada (source). On Podia, the Mover plan charges 5% per sale, on top of Stripe fees. LearnyBox takes no commission, but its built-in payment processor, LearnyPay, charges 2.6% incl. tax per card payment, according to its terms; you can connect Stripe or PayPal instead.

On Shoplit.io, AI creates the ebook and writes its sales page from the Free plan up. The Pro plan adds email marketing, and the Business plan, at €59/month, adds video courses and one-click upsells.

Shoplit.io vs Systeme.io in detail

Both tools sell digital products. Systeme.io sells one you have already made; Shoplit.io can also create it.

Creating the product

In Systeme.io, you sell a file or a course you prepared yourself. The course builder handles video lessons, PDF downloads, drip content and student progress (source). Through MCP or its AI Chat (Unlimited plan), the AI can create a product, its price or a course outline with modules and lessons, but we found no feature that writes and lays out the ebook itself.

In Shoplit.io, you describe the ebook in one sentence to the AI assistant. It asks a few questions, shows a recap for you to confirm, then writes, illustrates and lays out the PDF in a few minutes. You can attach your notes as a PDF, or upload a file that is already finished. The Free plan includes 2 AI creations, enough for a first ebook (up to 10 pages) and its sales page. The full method: create an ebook with AI and sell it.

Writing the sales page

Systeme.io gives you a drag-and-drop editor and templates for opt-in, sales, checkout and thank-you pages. You write the copy yourself, or use an AI: an outside AI of your choice, using its prompt generator, or the AI Chat on the Unlimited plan, which generates the content of funnel pages.

Shoplit.io generates the sales page from the ebook: ask for it in the same message as the ebook. Depending on the plan, you get a classic sales page with its checkout on Free, an advanced page in your brand colors (sales page, checkout and thank-you page) on Pro, or a complete funnel on Business. You then adjust the text, images and colors.

Funnels, email and courses

Systeme.io’s free plan includes funnels with a one-click upsell and an order bump, unlimited emails, a course with up to 500 students and an affiliate program so others can sell your products.

On Shoplit.io, each plan adds features. The Free plan lets you sell with a classic page and build 3 funnels yourself. The Pro plan, at €29/month, adds order bumps, email campaigns and automations (abandoned cart recovery included), sent from your own domain. The Business plan, at €59/month, adds one-click upsells and downsells, the AI funnel, which builds the whole funnel from a conversation, quiz funnels, copying an existing funnel and video courses with a student area.

Pricing

Systeme.io takes no commission on any plan: after the free plan come Startup at €17/month, Webinar at €47/month and Unlimited at €97/month.

Shoplit.io is free to start: the Free plan, with no subscription, takes 10% commission per sale. The Pro plan costs €29/month and the Business plan €59/month, both with no commission. With either company, paying yearly gives you two months free, and payment processing fees come on top.

Which tool should you choose?

When to choose Shoplit.io

Shoplit.io is built for you if you start from an idea and want one tool to create the product, sell it and wrap a funnel around it, with no copying and pasting between apps.

• You want AI to write the product itself. Describe the ebook in one sentence: the assistant writes, illustrates and lays it out, then generates its sales page if you ask for it in the same message. No topic yet? It suggests five ebook ideas for your niche.
• You sell in English, French or both: the app, the help center and the products it generates are available in both languages.
• You want funnels without building them page by page. On the Business plan, the AI funnel builds the sales page, checkout with an order bump, upsell, downsell and thank-you page from a conversation, and suggests a product idea when an offer is missing.
• You also sell video courses. On the Business plan, an uploaded video only plays inside the student area, with the student’s email shown as a watermark, and lessons can unlock over time.
• You are leaving Systeme.io: funnel copying on the Business plan brings your live pages over from their link, and contacts can be imported from a CSV file on every plan.

On every plan, the money from your sales goes straight to your own Stripe account.

When to choose Systeme.io

• Your product is ready and you want to start with no subscription and no commission: funnels, unlimited emails, a course and affiliates are all included on the free plan.
• You rely on automations, a community or evergreen webinars (from the Webinar plan), with support 7 days a week and an average response time under 2 hours according to its pricing page.
• You want the buyer’s country VAT rate added at checkout, which Systeme.io does as long as your order form includes the Country field (help).

When to choose LearnyBox

• You want a French tool, with a team and support based in France, available even on the free plan.
• You want a compliant invoice for every sale, with the VAT rate of the customer’s country and the EU OSS notice or the French small-business VAT exemption notice where needed (source).
• You train in cohorts, with SCORM, custom certificates, a mobile app or licenses for training organizations.

When to choose Podia

• You want courses, community, coaching, events, downloads, email and your website in one subscription, with community included from the smallest plan.
• You expect many students: they are unlimited, with no per-student fees, and courses handle quizzes, certificates and drip content.
• You want an AI agent, included in every plan, that prepares draft products and courses and asks for your approval before publishing.

When to choose Kajabi

• You are an expert who wants everything in one place: courses, coaching, communities, memberships, podcasts and newsletters, with a branded mobile app on its Pro plan.
• You want an assistant, Cofounder, included in every plan, that writes sales pages and emails, and AI that can outline a course.
• You want unlimited funnels, landing pages and marketing emails on all three plans, with a 30-day money-back guarantee.

How to move from Systeme.io to another tool

Your buyers and students need to keep access to what they paid for, whichever platform you move to.

In Shoplit.io, you can import contacts from a CSV file in Marketing, Contacts tab, on every plan (up to 2,500 imported or manually added contacts on the Free plan).

On the Business plan, the Copy an existing funnel card copies a funnel published on Systeme.io, ClickFunnels or another site from its link, as long as it is yours: Shoplit.io finds its pages and rebuilds them in the block editor, with your text, images, fonts and colors. Upsells become one-click offers, and YouTube, Vimeo, Loom or Wistia videos are kept. Then attach your products, upload the videos hosted on Systeme.io, set up your emails, automations and courses again in Shoplit.io, check each page and put your funnel live.